Manufacturing engineering or production engineering is a branch of
professional engineering that shares many common concepts and ideas with other
fields of engineering such as mechanical, chemical, electrical, and industrial
engineering. Manufacturing engineering requires the ability to plan the
practices of manufacturing; to research and to develop tools, processes,
machines and equipment; and to integrate the facilities and systems for
producing quality products with the optimum expenditure of capital.
The manufacturing or production engineer's primary focus is to turn raw
material into an updated or new product in the most effective, efficient &
economic way possible.